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First Papal Encyclicals, Part I
July 22, 2026 1:49 amBy Charles Peters, MD, OFS The Catholic Church views the provision of healthcare not only as a profession but also as a sacred vocation. It is a vocation intimately associated with the healing ministry of the Divine Physician. In treating the whole person, healthcare professionals attend to the body, mind and soul of the patient while upholding the inherent dignity and sanctity of every person from the moment of conception to natural death. They are called to imitate the compassion of Christ through care for the marginalized, the suffering and the vulnerable and to attest to the redemptive nature of... View Article
Heaven Is For Me
July 22, 2026 1:49 amBy Fr. Christopher Kubat, M.D. Recently I made a trip to Lourdes, France with a delightful couple and their eight-year-old son. In the year 1858, the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette in Lourdes, France and ever since, it has been a place of miracles. It is said that everyone who travels to Lourdes with an open-heart, experiences a spiritual and sometimes a physical cure. There were thousands of children of God the Father seeking the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes. On our first day at breakfast in the hotel dining room, I spied an older woman named Mary... View Article
CMA’s Boot Camp Gives Hope to Future Medical Students
July 13, 2026 1:30 amBy Grace Chaffins In the months leading up to the start of my first year of medical school, I felt fear creeping in. It wasn’t a fear of the hard work that lay ahead, or even a fear of failure. Rather, it was the fear that I would one day lose sight of my reason for going into medicine – that somewhere along the journey, it would become just another job reduced to checklists and mindless tasks. Much of this fear came from my experience working in environments where I witnessed burnout and cynicism among physicians, and where some of... View Article
Every Day Miracles
July 10, 2026 1:23 amBy David J. Hilger, M.D. On April 21st of this year, my friend Dr. Edward Gatz, anesthesiologist, passed away at the age of 89. At the age of 51, Dr. Gatz was given the prognoses of six months to live after surgery for a high-grade esophageal cancer at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Gatz and his wife Jeanne prayed every day to Jeanne Jugan, foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, asking for her intercession in his healing. Dr. Gatz survived for 37 years without further treatment. After years of investigation, the Catholic Church determined that his cure was a... View Article
July 2026 Embers
July 10, 2026 1:23 amThe theme for this month is The Mystery and Miracle of Healing. Registration is now open for our 95th Annual Educational Conference. The theme is Mysteries and Miracles: Restoring the Practice of Medicine to Heal the Whole Person, and it will be held September 10-12, 2026 in Phoenix, Arizona. See you there! The Church dedicates the month of July to The Most Precious Blood of Jesus. This image is from the Holy House Chapel of the National Blue Army Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima and was the vision given to Sister Lucia when Our Lady appeared to her in... View Article
Misinformed Consent: Hormonal Contraception Part 2
June 22, 2026 10:28 pmThe focus of Part 1 was how misinformation or incomplete education in informed consent can have life-altering consequences. The issues of when life begins, how hormonal contraception influences the beginning of life, and the necessity of protecting the dignity of the human person were discussed. Part II focuses on hormonal contraception and its potential risks to enable women to make fully informed decisions. Studies are revealing that the interaction with the immune system, autoimmunity, and proinflammatory states are factors for many chronic diseases. In 2023, UCLA published an article showing that hormonal contraception increased cortisol and proinflammatory cytokines TNF-alpha and... View Article
CMA Doctor Finds Faith and Healing in Modern Medical Center
June 22, 2026 10:28 pmCMA member and leading oncologist, Dr. Robert Collins, relates powerful truestories about God’s grace and healing in his new book, You Visited Me: Grace and Healing inthe Modern Medical Center. In the midst of the seemingly cold, stark, medical center, Dr. Collins reveals how God’s love ispresent by sharing stories in which he and his patients alike experience love, trust, hope, forgiveness, gratitude, answered prayers, and meaning in suffering. Witnessing these everyday miracles is what led Dr. Collins on his own spiritual journey from an agnostic to a Catholic physician. Dr. Collins explains, “In this place of suffering, fear, and... View Article
Marie Hilliard, Ph.D, RN Appointed to OPTN’s Ethics Committee
June 17, 2026 9:35 pmDr. Marie T. Hilliard, RN, co-chair of CMA’s Ethics Committee and a member of the CMA Board of Directors, has been appointed to the Ethics Committee of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), a regulatory agency responsible to the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Dr. Hilliard will serve as an At Large member, joining 18 other At Large and regional representatives of the U.S. As an At Large member, Dr. Hilliard will represent the general membership or the public on issues of interest or concern. The Ethics Committee guides the OPTN Board of Directors concerning OPTN policies... View Article
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
June 11, 2026 8:16 pmBy Fr. Christopher Kubat, M.D. The divine person of Jesus Christ has two natures, divine and human. As God, Jesus has a divine intellect and will. With these, He knows everything perfectly, loves and chooses perfectly. As man, Jesus possesses a human soul having and intellect and will. With these, He thinks and loves as a human man. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is having a devotion to his sacred human loving heart, a heart that loved so much that his physical heart was pierced on the Cross after which blood and water flowed, symbolizing the sacraments. It... View Article
June 2026 Embers
June 6, 2026 8:03 pmThe month of June is dedicated to The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (6/12) and in honor of the 250th anniversary of the founding of this country, our bishops are consecrating the U.S. to the Sacred Heart on June 11, to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The World Day of Prayer for Priests is June 12. Our theme this month is The Eucharist at the Heart of Faith and this is an image of the 760-year-old Eucharistic miracle in Santarem, Portugal. We suggest the books The Eucharistic Miracles of the World (Catalogue of the... View Article